A developer portal and a learning site do different jobs. Documentation helps someone complete a task or find a precise answer. A learning site takes them from their current level of knowledge to a defined capability. Many organisations put both types of content into the same website without planning how they fit together. The result… Read more »
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Cherryleaf UK Technical Writer/Author jobs indicator – July 2026
Here are the July 2025 results for our monthly survey tracking hiring demand for Technical Authors across the UK. Between June and July, the underlying market appears to have eased only slightly (around 2%), with LinkedIn partially offsetting declines on traditional job boards. Source June 2026 July 2026 Change Stepstone (Totaljobs only) 215 Writer /… Read more »
How technical writers can use multi-tab browsing in Codex
OpenAI’s Codex now supports multi-tab browsing inside an AI session. This might not seem like much, but it’s another useful example of AI for technical writers that can help resolve some of the most challenging bottlenecks in their workflow. It’s something we’ve used already to create a proof of concept for a client facing challenges… Read more »
The hidden technical documentation bottleneck: getting the right source information
Technical writers are often judged on the quality of the finished documentation. It is what customers, support teams, auditors, and internal users see. However, a lot of documentation problems begin much earlier. They begin when the writer is handed a Jira ticket or a pull request, a wiki page or a Word document, and they… Read more »
How much time can technical writing teams really save with AI?
AI can make technical writers faster. It cannot remove the hard part of technical writing. The hard part is knowing what is true, what matters to the user, and what needs to be maintained after the product changes. For documentation teams, that distinction matters. AI can reduce the time spent on first drafts, summaries, rewrites… Read more »